Daniel Tammet Quotes
There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.
Quotes to Explore
-
I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You must think about the solution differently when you're trying to impact 1 billion people rather than affecting 1 million people.
-
Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
-
I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
-
Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
-
I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
-
The First Nations Financial Transparency Act insulted the integrity of the very people in our communities who guide our economic policy and act as our mediators with provincial and federal governments.
-
There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
-
Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
-
The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
-
I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
-
To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.
-
But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
-
At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.
-
I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.
-
There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
-
I want everybody to run at the same speed as me. But some people are more conscientious, they think more and they plan more. And they're more careful.
-
My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
-
I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just like Shepperton, and so they built and lived in houses exactly like these. I now know I was drawn here because, on an unconscious level, Shepperton reminds me of Shanghai.
-
A lot of the people in Northern California and parts of Oregon have decided that we are not on the same page as San Francisco and Portland and Los Angeles. I don't know if six states is a solution because is Washington, D.C. and the rest of the country really going to give California 10 new senators?
-
There are a lot of different elements in play when you're remaking something people care about.
-
Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
-
But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
-
There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.
